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works

/wɜːks/

noun

Meaning

  • (heading) Employment.

  • (heading) Effort.

  • Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.

    "We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags."

  • (heading) Product; the result of effort.

  • The staging of events to appear as real.

  • Ore before it is dressed.

  • The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

    "Tell me you're using clean works at least."

verb

Meaning

  • To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

    "He’s working in a bar."

  • To effect by gradual degrees.

    "he worked his way through the crowd"

  • To embroider with thread.

  • To set into action.

    "He worked the levers."

  • To cause to ferment.

  • To ferment.

  • To exhaust, by working.

    "The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted."

  • To shape, form, or improve a material.

    "He used pliers to work the wire into shape."

  • To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

    "she works the night clubs"

  • To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.

  • To provoke or excite; to influence.

    "The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy."

  • To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

    "She knows how to work the system."

  • To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

    "I cannot work a miracle."

  • To cause to work.

    "He is working his servants hard."

  • To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.

    "he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?;  he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work;  my plan didn’t work"

  • To influence.

    "They worked on her to join the group."

  • To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.

  • To move in an agitated manner.

    "A ship works in a heavy sea."

  • To behave in a certain way when handled

    "this dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well"

  • (with two objects) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).

  • To hurt; to ache.

noun

Meaning

  • A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.

    "A stray wrench can really gum up the works."

  • A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.

    "The steel works almost fills the valley."

  • (with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.

    "I'll have a Behemoth Burger with the works."

  • (with "the") Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).